Womb: a novel in utero is being published by Merge Publishing in March 2017. Advance Reading copies are currently printed and available both as bound copies and ebooks. Womb is a literary novel set in Baltimore. In the spirit of The Lovely Bones, what makes Womb most interesting is the unique narrator. Set in the city and suburbs of Baltimore, Womb is narrated from witin the womb. He describes his own physical reality, his connection to the collective consciousness, and also narrates the drama of his mother's life as she deals with her pregnancy, friends, family, and work. The novel has been compared to Room by Emma Donaghue and Nutshell by Ian McEwan. 

Tracks: A Novel in Stories was published by Atticus Books in 2011. Tracks is set on a train traveling from Baltimore to Chicago. Each chapter in the novel is a stand-alone short story, but the stories connect to form a larger narrative. The main character in one story becomes a supporting character in another. The novel concerns itself with how people and the decisions they make can touch one another, even strangers on a train. Some of the stories take place in the destination city of Chicago, but the majority of the settings visited by the passengers on the train are in Baltimore.

Tracks was represented by the Doris S. Michaels Literary Agency in New York City, who aquired the book deal with Atticus in 2010. Atticus released Tracks, a novel in stories, as an original trade paperback and ebook in June 2011.

Tracks garnered dozens of reviews, the majority of them positve. Tracks won the Gold Medal for Best Fiction in the Mid-Atlantic Region from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) in 2012.

Many of the stories from Tracks have been read on Baltimore's NPR station, WYPR, and at the Baltimore Book Festival, Lit & Art reading series in abridged form, as well as other events in the Baltimore area. Individual stories from Tracks have been published in such periodicals as Slow Trains, To Be Read Aloud, Whatever Literary Journal, Smile Hon You're in Baltimore, JMWW, and Coloquio.

Learn more about Tracks: A Novel in Stories at www.EricDGoodman.com/Tracks.html. 

I'm continually working on my fiction. Having lived in Baltimore since 2000, longer than anywhere in my life, I like to set scenes in specific locations in Baltimore city, county, and the area. Setting, to me, is like a character in a story or book.

When I'm not writing an original draft, I'm revising. When I'm not at my desk, I'm thinking plots over in my head, having conversations with my characters, and roaming the sites of Baltimore where I plan to set certain scenes. Writing fiction is in my blood, and I'm dedicated to producing quality literary fiction that showcases all Baltimore has to offer.

Such work includes Tracks: A Novel in Stories, which was published by Atticus Books in 2011, as well as Womb: a novel in utero, which is being published by Merge Publishing in March 2017.

Setting also plays an important role in my  short fiction, which has been showcased in such publications as The Baltimore Review, JMWW, Smile Hon You're in Baltimore, The Potomac, The Pedestal Magazine, Grub Street, Scribble, and New Lines from the Old Line State: An Anthology of Maryland Writers. I will continue to spotlight the settings and spirits of Baltimore and the surrounding area in my literary fiction.

More than a dozen of my short stories have been abridged and read on Baltimore's NPR station, WYPR. The Signal called me "a regular on the Baltimore literary scene," and producer and host Aaron Henkin called my work "A voyaristic fantasy fulfilled."

I also share my work and allow other local writers to share their own work at my regular Lit and Art Reading Series at the Watermark Gallery in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. 

Eric focuses on the fiction of other writers and artists, not just his own. The Lit and Art Reading Series, which Eric co-founded in 2007, meets about 5 times a year and showcases the work of a talented group of authors, poets, musicians, and artists both regionally and from around the world.

Entering it's 10th year, the Lit and Art Reading Series meets regularly at the Watermark Gallery in downtown Baltimore's Inner Harbor and, once a year at the Baltimore Book Festival, and occasionally at other locations, such as the Historic York Inn / Smyser Bair House in nearby York. 

Featured talent in the program have included Madison Smartt Bell, Jessica Anya Blau, Michael Kimball, Jen Michalski, Bathsheba Monk, Jennifer Miller, Steve Himmer, Jen Grow, Richard Peabody, Nathan Leslie, Dave Eberherdt, Liz Moser, Kathy Cottle, Nitin Jagdish, Charles Rammelkamp, Rafael Alvarez, and many others.

Learn more about the Lit and Art Reading Series and upcoming events at www.facebook.com/Groups/LitAndArt.